The full quote in dirty imperial units:

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I’m free.

– The Fast and the Furious

How was this translated to metric?

  • otp
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    8 hours ago

    I upvoted for the history.

    I don’t understand why things haven’t progressed since the 50s though now that we have proper measurements… especially the ones that don’t need fractions! Haha

    • Captain Aggravated
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      3 hours ago

      Well 1, there’s a lot of classic recipes out there written for cups and tablespoons so if you want to keep cooking those you’ll need traditional measuring tools anyway and

      2, Recipe calls for 1/4 teaspoon, you get the spoon that says 1/4 tsp on it and scoop once. It’s not ancient egyptian rocket surgery.